rosel

See also: Rosel

Old French

Alternative forms

roseal (Thomas d'Angleterre)

Etymology

From Frankish *rausa (“reed”), from Proto-Germanic *rausą, *rauzą (“pipe, reed, shaft, tube”), from Proto-Indo-European *er- (“to move, excite, grow”).

Cognate with Old High German rōr (“pipe”) (German Rohr (“tube”)), Old Norse reyrr (“reed”) (Danish rør (“reed, pipe, tube”)), Old English rysc (“reed, rush”).

Noun

Lua error in Module:utilities at line 142: attempt to perform arithmetic on local 'h' (a nil value)

reed (plant)
(in the plural, rosels) a jousting contest apparently using them stems of reeds as opposed to lances

Descendants

French: roseau

References

Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (rosel, "jousting contest")
Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (rosel, supplement, "reed")

rosel on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

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